But then why do we see increases of all types of crime in Saskatchewan? While I might do my own analysis of reaction to oppression (as much of the crime exists in the aboriginal community), our government's policies have not been punitive a la Harris - or have they for a particular group? > ---------- > From: Dennis Raphael[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: Health Promotion on the Internet > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:45 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: When social policy is health policy > > <<File: ATT02403.txt>> > Just like in Richard Wilkinson's "Unhealthy societies: The afflictions of > inequality." > > Now if reporters could begin to analyze why this might be the case! > > Violent crime up 7.5% in Greater Toronto > Young people have highest rate, Statscan says > Elaine Carey > DEMOGRAPHICS REPORTER > Greater Toronto's violent crime rate has risen dramatically for the > first time > in seven years and a leading criminologist > blames the Harris government. > > ``It seems to me inevitable that we would have an increase in violence > because > it seems we have policies designed that > way,'' said Anthony Doob, a criminology professor at the University of > Toronto. > > Violent crime in Toronto rose by 7.5 per cent last year to a rate of 868 > incidents per 100,000 population, Statistics > Canada said in its annual report on crime yesterday. But property > crimes, > including theft, break and enter and fraud, fell > by 6.8 per cent. > > This lead to a 2.1 per cent decline in the over-all crime rate, leaving > Toronto with the fourth lowest rate of all > metropolitan areas, after Chicoutimi-Jonqui >